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Datafied and Divided: Techno–Dimensions of Inequality in American Cities

Datafied and Divided: Techno–Dimensions of Inequality in American Cities Abstract This essay interrogates the effects that “big data” have on constructing space and subjects that reproduce inequality in the urban landscape. By comparing two different data–driven projects within the same city, data collection and collation is seen to contribute to existing divides along racial and class lines. As urban sociologists seek to capitalize on the vast quantity of data generated by automated devices and networked computation, they must first interrogate and deconstruct the hidden protocols and ideologies that define algorithmic classification systems. Predictive policing and “smart city” economic development operate to construct subjects tied to spatial markers encoded in databases. Therefore, technological structures must be theorized alongside racial and class structures as entrenching historical inequities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Datafied and Divided: Techno–Dimensions of Inequality in American Cities

City and Community , Volume 16 (1): 1 – Mar 1, 2017

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SAGE
Copyright
© 2017 American Sociological Association
ISSN
1535-6841
eISSN
1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/cico.12220
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Abstract

Abstract This essay interrogates the effects that “big data” have on constructing space and subjects that reproduce inequality in the urban landscape. By comparing two different data–driven projects within the same city, data collection and collation is seen to contribute to existing divides along racial and class lines. As urban sociologists seek to capitalize on the vast quantity of data generated by automated devices and networked computation, they must first interrogate and deconstruct the hidden protocols and ideologies that define algorithmic classification systems. Predictive policing and “smart city” economic development operate to construct subjects tied to spatial markers encoded in databases. Therefore, technological structures must be theorized alongside racial and class structures as entrenching historical inequities.

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City and CommunitySAGE

Published: Mar 1, 2017

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